Source:	All England Reporter
Publisher Citation:	[2002] All ER (D) 142 (Mar)
Court:	Court of Appeal, Civil Division
Judge:	Lord Woolf CJ, Laws and Dyson LJJ
Representation	Alastair Wilson QC, Stephen Bate and Jeremy Reed for the claimant.
	Richard Spearman QC for the newspaper.
Judgment Dates:	11 March 2002

Catchwords

Confidential information - Disclosure - Interim injunction against disclosure of information - Newspaper intending to publish articles relating to claimant's extra-marital affairs - Whether law affording protection of confidentiality to facts concerning sexual relations outside marriage - Whether newspaper's right to freedom of expression outweighed by claimant's right to confidentiality - Guidance on grant of interim injunctions in cases of confidentiality - s 12 - European Convention on Human Rights, art 10.

The Case

The grant of an interim injunction in a claim for breach of confidence brought by a well-known footballer against a national newspaper and the footballer's ex-lover was an unjustified interference with the freedom of the press.

Practice Areas

• Company Commercial
• Dispute Resolution

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